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misgo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈmɪsɡəʊ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

Meanings

  1. An error or mistake
    • “Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!” 1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys, page 205:
    • […] my hand came in contact with a lot of curly hair, and by the shriek which greeted my ear, I was conshus^([sic]) that I had made a misgo, and was clutchin a womans water-fall. 1870, Punchinello, volumes 1-2, page 203:
  2. A miscarriage or abortion
    • And when the hemorrhage is checked they will often insist that they have had a "misgo" or abortion. 1881, Rodney Glisan, Text Book of Modern Midwifery, page 79:

Forms

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misgoes Number=Plur lexicographic

misgo en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mɪsˈɡəʊ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
    • Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing. 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
    • Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim! 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
misgoes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misgoing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
miswent Tense=Past lexicographic
misgone Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic